A Finlander's Apology for Swearing

Mid Playing is "Jambalaya"

        This story takes place in the late 1940's or early 1950's in the Fall during Deer hunting season in the McKellar and Dunchurch area of Parry Sound District.

        A group of friends were going hunting for deer and I was invited to go along even though I was only in my early teens. It was a day of excitement for me and it started fairly  early as I recall. Someone picked me up and we headed to have breakfast at someone's place just north of McKellar, can not recall the name at the moment.( senior moment, maybe more serious than I think) We arrived at the farmhouse and went in to have breakfast as stories of past deer hunting trips were told. One tough old Finlander by the name of Eino, whose command of the English language was limited, was telling a story of his exploits when I noticed the lady of the house who had cooked the breakfast look at Eino very disapprovingly as Eino related his story. Nearly every second word he uttered was a swear word and some of the men were obviously embarrassed by the string of oaths, etc coming from his mouth.

        Finally, it dawned on Eino that his choice of words were not suitable in the presence of a lady and he should make amends by apologizing to  her. His apology went as follows ....

        " xcoose me all to Hell, lady, I titn't  mean to swear so cottamn much. Tamn it, I is sorry.  Now fellas, let's ket the hell going, we have to ket pissy and shoot us some cottamn teer today"

        The lady of the house couldn't contain herself and burst out laughing saying " Thanks, Eino, now you ket the hell outa here with the rest of the cuys and shoot tem teer" 

        The day went fairly well with a lot of excitement. One newbie hunter, spotted a deer that was run out of the swamp and claimed he emptied his rifle at it and it never stopped and he was sure he hit it at least several times. An oldtimer asked him to take him to the spot where he was shooting from when he saw the deer. The newbie did so, the old timer looked around, bent over and started picking up unfired rounds off the ground. The newbie had got so excited that instead of firing, he just pumped out all the shells with his lever action Winchester......  Talk about being embarrassed ..... he took quite a ribbing for a long time about the episode.

        As I recall the group only got one deer that day, but it was a day not to be forgotten!